To recap the Format of the Paper:
          Title Page of the Paper. The title of your paper should be brief but should adequately inform the reader of your general topic and the specific focus of your research. Keywords relating to parameters, population, and other specifics are useful. ALWAYS use a Title Page for graduate work! Your title page will include the title, name, course name and number, and Professors Name.

I.          Introduction (1-2 pages): This section shall provide an overview of the topic that you are writing about, concise synopsis of the issues (the problem your research addresses), and how your research addresses it (purpose). Include one academic research question. In addition to the question, make sure you clearly state your research hypothesis, theoretical framework, definitions, and the significance of your research within the intelligence studies. This section can be preceded by an epigraph that creates interest in the topic.  We encourage the use of epigraphs, but please follow the proper format for epigraphs!!

II.        Review of the Literature (3-5 pages):  All research projects include a literature review to set out for the reader what knowledge exists on the subject under study and helps the researcher develop the research strategy to use in the study.  A good literature review is a thoughtful study of what has been written, a summary of the arguments that exist (whether you agree with them or not), and are arranged thematically. The literature review is not an annotated bibliography and should be written in coherent narrative style.Tura At the end of the literature review, you should discuss the current knowledge gaps that exist and how your study will help fill those gaps.

III.        Methodology and Research Strategy (1-2 pages):  This section provides the reader with a description of your strategy to conduct research for this paper. It identifies your variables and how you operationalized your research approach.  It describes the data you found and how you analyzed it (the procedures/tools you used) for your Analysis and Findings.  This section describes any limitations you discovered about your strategy and how you overcame them.

IV.        Analysis and Findings (3-4 pages):  This section provides the results of your research and the analytical arguments that the paper makes as a result of an analysis of the variables.  In a quantitative project, this section would provide the results of the data collection and an analysis of what it illustrates in empirical terms. However, given the length of the term, most projects will be qualitative.  This section should also provide the evidence that proves (or disproves) the hypothesis and you answer your question in this section.

V.        Conclusions (2 -3 pages):  This section will contain the concluding analytical arguments based on what research has revealed to answer the research question.  Like any conclusion, it should provide a synopsis of the project, the strategy, and the results and what they add to the body of knowledge.  This section should also offer suggestions for avenues of future research for other scholars, as all knowledge is evolutionary.